Esther 4:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.*

Cross References

Genesis 18:19

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Avraham that which he has spoken of him.*

Genesis 43:14

May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.*

2 Samuel 10:12

Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seems him good.

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Yehoshafat feared, and set himself to seek to the LORD; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Yehudah.

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Esther 4:15

Then Ester asked them to answer Mordekhai,

Esther 4:17

So Mordekhai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commanded him.

Esther 4:3

In every province, wherever the king's mitzvah and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 5:1

Now it happened on the third day that Ester put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

Esther 9:31

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordekhai the Jew and Ester the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day, the Lord, the LORD of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

Jeremiah 36:9

Now it happened in the fifth year of Yehoiakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Yerushalayim, and all the people who came from the cities of Yehudah to Yerushalayim, proclaimed a fast before the LORD.

Daniel 2:18

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniyel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Bavel.

Matthew 12:40

For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Luke 9:24

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

John 19:22

Pilate answered, *What I have written, I have written.*

Acts 10:7

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

Acts 20:24

But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Yeshua, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Acts 21:13

Then Sha'ul answered, *What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Yerushalayim for the name of the Lord Yeshua.*

Acts 27:33

While the day was coming on, Sha'ul begged them all to take some food, saying, *This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

Acts 9:9

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

Romans 16:4

who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

Philippians 2:30

because for the work of Messiah he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Joshua 24:15

If it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amori, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

1 Samuel 19:5

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Pelishti, and the LORD worked a great victory for all Yisra'el: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?